rustix
Safe Rust bindings to POSIX-ish APIs (by bytecodealliance)
mustang
Rust programs written entirely in Rust (by sunfishcode)
| rustix | mustang | |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 20 | |
| 1,324 | 792 | |
| 2.0% | - | |
| 9.3 | 7.5 | |
| 6 days ago | 15 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
rustix
Posts with mentions or reviews of rustix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
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OpenBSD 7.5 Released
It would be great for Rust to have a Linux target that doesn't use libc, but from what I've read, not many people are interested in this.
Found this as well: https://github.com/sunfishcode/mustang
Some discussion here: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix/issues/76
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Rust criticism from a Rustacean
Without actually having looked into this, how does https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix fit into points 1 & 2?
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Cargo build in debug taking longer than in release?
I find this github issue: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix/issues/575
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Integrating rustix on NuttX
Hi Rust experts, we are willing to integrate rustix on NuttX RTOS, the initial effort was done by rustix author: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix/tree/nuttx but it hit the wall since we don't know the right way to integrate cargo with the old-school NuttX's Makefiles. Any help or suggestion is welcome. More about NuttX here: https://nuttx.apache.org and here: https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/
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Pgwm 0.3 a pure rust `no_std` no libc window manager.
Have you considered using rustix? It provides many of the facilities of std without using libc.
- NVIDIA Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" (This is not about Rust)
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Will Rust drop dependency on libc and make direct system calls? when ? (Please don't mention no_std case)
rustix can make syscalls directly to Linux. There's a rustc fork that can use it to build std.
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Can rust be entirely written in rust and drop C usage in its code base ?
The rustix project claims to use raw syscalls (and vDSO calls) on linux and provides more memory / type safety compared to the libc API.
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memmapix: A pure Rust library for cross-platform memory mapped IO, which replace libc with rustix.
Hi, the reason is explained by the description of https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix.
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What crates would you add to a "batteries-included" library for Rust?
Please consider rustix as an alternative to nix.
mustang
Posts with mentions or reviews of mustang.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
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OpenBSD 7.5 Released
It would be great for Rust to have a Linux target that doesn't use libc, but from what I've read, not many people are interested in this.
Found this as well: https://github.com/sunfishcode/mustang
Some discussion here: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix/issues/76
- Mustang
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Rust criticism from a Rustacean
On Linux there has been some attempts to get exactly this solutions, most notibly https://github.com/sunfishcode/mustang but the topic did not seem to fetch a prominent position on the supported feature list.
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Microsoft rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
For Linux, Mustang already exists because Linux has a stable syscall API
- Mustang: Rust target with std and no linking to a Libc
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The Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
Why bother with a libc at all, when you can skip it entirely on Linux!
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Why so few, if any, pure Rust apps?
Mustang is a project which is able to run some non-trivial programs written in Rust, such as ripgrep, without using any libc, on Linux.
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Can rust be entirely written in rust and drop C usage in its code base ?
Mustang is one way to take care of the tiny amount of "C" that runs before main().
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How do I use Zig as Rust's Standard C Library?
This is more a Rust question than a Zig question. In Rust, the choice of a specific libc (or to not use a libc) is part of the "target", for example many hardware platforms have gnu/musl/none targets. See also relibc or mustang for pure-rust alternatives. Each libc alternative require some work to integrate into Rust.
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memmapix: A pure Rust library for cross-platform memory mapped IO, which replace libc with rustix.
There's a separate project for that, called Mustang. It's built on top of rustix and provides all those things. It's not super mature yet, but it is able to run ripgrep by itself: https://github.com/sunfishcode/mustang
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rustix and mustang you can also consider the following projects:
liblinux - Linux system calls.
ziglibc
relibc - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc
clap-rs - A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust
compiler-builtins - Porting `compiler-rt` intrinsics to Rust
jython3 - A sandboxed attempt at v3 (not maintained)
libc - Raw bindings to platform APIs for Rust
rust-brotli - Brotli compressor and decompressor written in rust that optionally avoids the stdlib
mpv - 🎥 Command line video player